Ashley Young claims Manchester United’s players are as gutted as the fans to lose to bitter rivals Liverpool.

Young felt for their supporters who have stood by them during their difficult campaign after their chastening 3-1 defeat against their Premier League leading arch-rivals at Anfield on Sunday.

He felt United were unlucky to lose to Xherdan Shaqiri’s two deflected second-half goals after they had frustrated Liverpool.

“The fans are fantastic — have been all season,” said Young. “Obviously for them it’s disappointing as well as for us. We’ve got to try to take the positives out of the game and be ready for the next game.

“It’s disappointing. I don’t think there’s a lot more I can say. Two deflections.

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“We got back into the game at one all and I thought we could have gone on to win.

“It’s always disappointing to concede.

“I think we were containing them. We were under a lot of pressure in the second half, which we knew would happen.

Jesse Lingard levelled the match at 1-1 after a mistake by keeper Alisson (Image: AFP/Getty)

I didn’t think they would score. Then the two deflected goals. It deflates us and they go on to win the game.

“In the first half, they had their goal and then we got ourselves back into the game. For large parts, we had time and space to play.

“I think at times we did that and could have done that more. But we have come off the pitch having lost the game and we’re disappointed with that.”

Young claims United will work hard this week in training to make amends away to Cardiff on Saturday.

“When you lose a game it’s disappointing and you want another game straight away,” the defender told MUTV.

“We’ve got to prepare for that game during the week and hopefully go there and get three points.”